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REPORTS OF CASES. 
with colic. She was a Clydesdale, with foal at side, six .weeks 
old. Owner said she had never been sick before. She was 
standing in the corner of a box stall, looking rather dumpish, 
with some abrasions about the head, as if done while cast. The 
foal was continually sucking, indicating non-secretion of milk. 
Temperature 105-°, pulse 60, respirations normal ; entire ab¬ 
sence of peristaltic action, membranes injected and somewhat 
icterous. Diagnosis, impaction of colon. Gave aloetic purge. 
On 18th called to see how patient was doing; found her in 
much the same condition, no passage from bowels, eating and 
drinking a small amount, with no colicy pains. Gave olei lini, Oi, 
calomel, 3 i, olei terebinth. § i; left two drachms calomel, to be 
given 6 hours apart. 
On 19th mare in much the same condition, taking some 
food, no colicy pains, no passage from bowels. Gave rectal in¬ 
jections ; Barb, aloes, 3 i, in bolus, which operated next day. 
Mare seemed somewhat better. Did not see her again until the 
24th, when I was called, saying the mare was much worse. On 
arrival mare had been dead half an hour. Held autopsy, and 
on opening the abdomen a great quantity of food and water 
came rushing out. Having a wound on my left hand could not 
manipulate the bowels as I would like to have done. The 
peritoneal coat and the intestines were gangrenous. At the 
juncture of the ileum and the caecum there was a cyst the 
size of a 16-quart measure. In dividing the same its interior 
resembled the inside of an orange in color and consistency. 
There was also a rupture of the intestines where the cyst ad¬ 
hered to the ileum. 
PYEMIC ABSCESS IN LUMBAR REGION, CAUSING PERITONITIS 
AND DEATH IN A COLT TWO MONTHS OLD. 
By T. I". Moyle, V. S., Waterford, Wis. 
On August 3, 1897, I was called to attend a sick colt, said 
to have been in good health from time of birth, fat and well de¬ 
veloped ; found on morning of 3d down, seemingly not able 
to rise ; owner gave a dose of brandy ; came to town, ordered me 
out to see it. When he arrived home found colt up, walking 
around, seeming much improved, as he expressed it. Gave 
another dose of brandy, went to his breakfast; on returning, 
found colt dead. I arrived soon after and held an autopsy. In 
the abdominal cavity there was a large quantity of bloody water, 
peritoneal coat in shreds; in the left lumbar region, behind the 
kidney, an abscess the size of a two-quart measure adhered to 
